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Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful…Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull…
Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful soldiers that the Devil either by his grand captains the emperors, or by his most dearly beloved sons and heirs the popes, have most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poisoned doctrines wherewith that great read dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his traitorous practises and designs, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, and our most religious Sovereign Lord King James. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and divers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull souldiers that the Diuell either by his grand captaines the emperours, or by his most deerly beloued sonnes and heyres the popes, haue most cruelly martyred for the truth. With all the poysoned doctrins wherewith that great redde dragon hath made drunken the kings and inhabitants of the earth; with the confutations of them together with all his trayterous practises and designes, against all Christian princes to this day, especially against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie, and our most religious Soueraigne Lord King Iames. Faithfully abstracted out of the Book of martyrs, and diuers other books. By Thomas Mason preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by George Eld and Ralph Blower, 1615
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Danes having the Rule of the North part of England from the Thames▪ wi•h M•rcian London, and Essex,1 they disdained that Alfride should bear any rule on the other side of the Thames; whereupon three Kings of the Danes▪ with all their strength, made war with him, that King Alfride being overset with his e•emi•s, and forsaken of his people, he withdrew himself into a wood Country in Somersetshire, called ⟨p. 33⟩Etheling, standing in a Marsh, that there is no coming to it without bo•e, where he had nothing to live by, but what he got by hunting, and fishing; there was a Cottage of a poor Swineherd, called Dunwolfus, by whom the King was cheered with such poor fare as he and his wife could make him, for which, the king after set the Swineherd to learning, and made him Bishop of Winchester.
The Danes hauing the Rule of the North part of England from the Thames▪ wi•h M•rcian London, and Essex,1 they disda••ed that Alfride should beare any rule on the other side of the Thames; whereupon three Kings of the Danes▪ with all their strength, made warre with him, that King Alfride being ouerset with his e•emi•s, and forsaken of his people, he withdrew himselfe into a wood Country in Summersetshire, called ⟨p. 33⟩Etheling, standing in a Marsh, that there is no comming to it without boe, where he had nothing to liue by, but what he got by hunting, and fishing; there was a Cottage of a poore Swineheard, called Dunwolfus, by whom the King was cheered with such poore fare as he and his wife could make him, for which, the king after set the Swineheard to learning, and made him Bishop of Winchester.